Making Lunches for the Children

Each Sunday, Horton’s Kids needs volunteers to make lunches for all the children attending our field trips. This involves picking up the necessary groceries, putting together sandwiches Sunday morning, and bringing it all to the Capitol South metro stop by noon on Sunday. Most people find the whole process of shopping plus sandwich-making takes about 3 hours. The lunch menu below gives a variety of choices. 

You do not need to bag individual lunches. We can set up a line to distribute food to the kids. Keep in mind we do not have plates, cups, napkins, et.c available on our school buses, so you should get beverages and snacks that are individually packaged. If the weather is hot, please keep the sandwiches separate from the rest of the food so that we can keep them in a cooler. It seems to work well to put the sandwiches back into the bread bags after they are made so they do not need to be individually wrapped.  If you would like to be reimbursed for the cost of the food, please keep all HKids items on a separate receipt from any personal items you purchase, write your address on the back of the receipt, and give it to Julie on Sunday (or another Hkids staff person if she is not there).

Menu for Sunday Lunches
(Click here for a printable version of this menu).

Budget: Approximately $3.60 per lunch; quantity varies each week
Please do not purchase any food/drinks for volunteers—money is to be used only for the children. 
Please choose one item from each category.

1. Sandwich
   Meat and Cheese
   Choice of Meat: turkey, bologna, ham
   Choice of Cheese: American, Mozerella, Monterey Jack, or Cheddar; no swiss
   Choice of Bread: potato rolls or wheat bread (they like Schmidt Old Thyme 100% Whole Wheat Bread or similar—no “chunks” of wheat, oat, etc.)
   Condiments: mustard or mayonnaise (easy to do for outdoor activity days)
   NOTE: do NOT put condiments on the sandwiches; instead, buy one small squeeze bottle of each so kids have the option of putting these on their sandwiches
   Peanut Butter and Jelly is ok, but they will not eat sandwiches that are “soggy”, so you have to prepare them right before activity to keep the jelly from soaking through the bread
   
   
2. Drink
   Water
   Juice (must be 100% juice – no sugar added)

1. Fruit
   Bananas
   Oranges
   Plums
   Watermelon
   Grapes (if activity is outdoors)

• Snack
  Teddy grahams
  Fruit/cereal bars
  Animal crackers
  Go-gurt
  Applesauce
  Pretzels
  Hard-boiled eggs
  Veggies (carrots/celery) & dip (preferably ranch dressing)
  Pudding snacks (the kind that does not need to be refrigerated)
  NOTE:  No chips or cookies

• Cheese (it helps the children’s teeth!)
  Monterey Jack
  Mozzarella
  Cheddar
  NOTE: pre-packaged cheese such as string cheese is easiest